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Autograph letter by Avraham Maimonides to Moshe b. Peraḥyā Ben Yiju, the muqaddam of Minyat Ghamr and Minyat Zifta. Dated: 20th day of the Omer …
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Piyyuṭ for Shabbat Balaq with a colophon. "By Ibn al-Shaṭnāsh (אלשטנאש/الشطناش), may God have mercy on him. Written by the cantor Abū l-Ḥasan the son …
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Beginning of a letter from a certain Shemuel to Ibrāhīm ha-Talmid. Dating: likely 13th century. (Information in part from CUDL)
Legal document. Partnership agreement. Dating: 1108 CE(?), further context is needed for this estimate given that the document only lists a partial year 14[..] Seleucid. …
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Letter; from Maʿānī b. Abū Maslūk, mentioning a certain Isḥāq. (Information from CUDL)
Legal document from a qāḍī court. Dated: 15 Dhū l-Ḥijja 870 AH (Sunday 29 July 1466 CE). The raʾīs al-yahūd, Yūsuf b. Khalīfa, and his …
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله وحده جرى ذلك اللهم صلى على سيّدنا محمد وآله وصحبه وسلم تسليماً كثيراً
بمجلس الحكم العزيز بين يدي …
In the name of God, the merciful, the compassionate. Praise be to God alone. God’s prayers and many blessings upon our lord Muḥammad, on his famil…
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Minute fragment. On Recto an opening of a marriage document which might be connected to the verso. On verso an opening of a betrothal deed. …
Small fragment of a legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Refers to a power of attorney (wakāla) of …
Account containing list of names and some Arabic numbers as well as other siglia arranged in short columns
Three drafts of a testimony concerning the qualifications and good conduct of the physician Abū l-Ḥasan b. Abū Sahl b. Ibrāhīm (=Yedutun ha-Levi?). The witnesses …
شهد من اثبت شهادته اخر هذا المحضر شهدوا
جميعا وفرادى انهم يعرفون فلان منتجزه معرفة
صحيحة جامعة بعينه واسمه ونسبه ويخبرون
حاله…
The people whose names occur at the end of this court record, they being free,
honourable and good Muslim men, testified,
together …
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Legal document. Dating: mentions a period beginning in Kislev 1[4]14 Seleucid = November/December 1102 CE. Mentioning Alexandria. In which the 'righteous elders' intervene and settle …
Islamic legal text, in Arabic script. Mentions the order of wilāya of a woman for nikāḥ.
IB V, 37, folio 8r. Remnant of a letter or possibly state document in Arabic script. The ends of two lines are preserved: ...لعبك من …
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Deed of sale for a portion of a house. Location: Fustat. Dated: Ṭevet 1468 Seleucid, which is 1156/57 CE, under the reshut of Shemuel b. …
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Recto: Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. The handwriting looks like one of the Mosul Nasis active in the 13th century. The sender says that he (or she?) …
Legal record (#95) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 32r of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated on the same …
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Small fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Probably from a letter written on behalf of a poor man (hādha …
Fragment in Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Appears to be a biblical concordance and dictionary.
Court minute, in the hand of Natan b. Shemuel he-Ḥaver. Location: Fustat. Legal document concerning the Sicilian Abū Yaʿaqov Yosef b. Moshe al-Kohen who has …
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Letter. In Hebrew. Dating: Probably no earlier than 17th century. Appears to be a form letter of recommendation filled out on behalf of one Seʿadya …
Marriage contract between Eli b. Qimoy and Sutayt b. Yair, written by Shemarya b. Elhanan. Dated Shevat 1306/995 (January-February). (Information from Bareket, Shafrir misrayim, p. …
Letter from Nissim b. Shela to the teacher Yiṣḥaq b. Ḥayyim Nafūsī. In Judaeo-Arabic. Contains detailed information about the sending and selling of books. People …
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Family letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably no earlier than 13th century. Mentions a woman named Sutayta, a woman named Esther, a man who seems to …
Document in Judaeo-Arabic, which sounds like it is about communal affairs. Dating: Possibly 11th century. Needs examination.
Book list in the hand of Shelomo ha-Levi, mentioning, among other items, Mishna tractates and their gemara (occasionally specifying the type of script), a commentary …
Legal notes in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–38 CE). Mentions Abū l-Surūr; Abū Saʿīd; and possibly a freedwoman named סלמה, but …
Letter. In Arabic script. Address only. Addressed to the faqīh [...] b. ʿAbd [...] b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, in the Muṣāṣa quarter of Fustat.
Unidentified document mentioning (on verso) the rabbi (ha-Rav ha-Muvhaq) Barukh b. Yiṣḥaq (possibly the chief judge of Aleppo of the same name).
Letter of appeal for charity. In Judaeo-Arabic, with a long Hebrew introduction. (Information in part from CUDL)
Fragment of a petition in Arabic script, written in a rudimentary hand. The sender (or the person he is writing on behalf of) wishes to …
Mercantile accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. Mentioning people such as Abū Zikrī, Abū Yūsuf, and Barhūn, and commodities such as pepper and …
Calendar of roshey ḥodashim including for the year 1834/35 CE (5595 AM).
Legal document containing the wording of the vow to be made by Bū Isḥāq Ibn Kathīr. Also mentions ʿOvadya b. Aharon and the wife of …
Letter in Arabic script. Or maybe a petition—the second block opens with "yuqabbil al-arḍ wa-yunhī." Needs examination.
Fragment of a literary text, in Arabic script. Bifolio of a larger Arabic text, mentioning a conversation between ʿAbd al-Malik b. Marwān (646-705; the fifth …
Recto: Letter in Arabic script. Calligraphic (chancery?) hand, but no wide space between the lines. 6 lines from the middle of the letter are preserved. …
Notebook of a marriage broker. In Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew with Coptic numerals. Dating: 1511/12 CE (1823 Seleucid). Enumerates the circumstances attending the marriage of certain …
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Deed of compensation from the court of Efrayim b. Shemarya and in his handwriting. Concerning people from Tyre and a partnership, starting with an Arabic …
Letter in a crude hand to a woman (Sitt […]), describing the writer’s safe arrival in Fusṭāṭ. (Information from CUDL.) Also in his handwriting: T-S …
List of alms for the poor: בשם רחום וחנון אלצדקה מן אלעגל ללעניים. The men include several Yosefs, ʿEzra, Khallūf, Bū l-Majd the shammash, and …
Accounts, in Arabic script. Mentions a list of individuals with sums of money. Needs examination.
Karaite deed of testimony that a husband has delivered a bill of divorce to his wife. Location: Baghdad (l. 7, פה בגדאד) Dated: 6 Iyyar …
Fragment of a letter from Barakāt Ibn al-ʿAṭṭār to Shelomo b. Eliyyahu ha-Dayyan, conveying greetings and expressing sadness about being separated from the recipient. Likely …
Letter from a retired old Alexandrian merchant to a friend in Fustat. One side is a letter in Arabic script and the other side is …
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE). On parchment? Mentions 450 dinars, possibly with the term "Malikī" after, which would …
Two tables, one headed al-kabīr and the other a-saghīr (= al-ṣaghīr). Dating: probably late, no earlier than 13th century. The first table consists of all …
A couple lines of a late account.
Fiscal document (account? in table form) with very wide line spacing, in a chancery/fiscal hand. Appears to list at least 12 towns in the upper …
Business letter in Arabic script. Missing the beginning. Mentions places such as Malīj (l. 2) and probably Maḥalla (l. 8, though it looks more like …
Letter in Arabic script. Related to the 12th-century India trade. Mentions Abū l-ʿAlāʾ b. Abū Naṣr al-Isrāʾīlī al-Tājir (the trader) who arrived from Egypt this …